I do think there needs to be some drastic restructuring with consideration of reality that we know now - that may not have been as present back at some earlier point. At this point I am not sure I trust people to just go and collect at these grocery stores, buying out shelves of items, like rubbing alcohol...frozen food, chicken (they're probably freezing it...), beef (same). I think-instead people should place an order, before going, and it will be picked for them, and done in/for a time that they can pick it up. Everyone will have an app. This will make it so in the case of something like this happening and people panic buying-- they simply won't be able to. The warehouse will be locked down to non-employees. You can buy ONE bottle of rubbing alcohol/peroxide, hand sanitizer, etc. per week, panicky person, not 10 (unless you get a waiver, or are a business). Perhaps in normal times, they can buy more, but times where there is an impending state of emergency, there has to be tighter controls, and ability to enforce them. I have been to many stores, and all of the rubbing alcohol and peroxide is out. Normally it's barely touched. Gas stations that had it collecting dust are now sold out. Online, they're trying to sell a gallon for like 100 bucks.
I actually happen to agree with you, about giving the public more ownership, or, figuring in that it is the public that keeps these businesses afloat in the first place, and structuring with that in mind(?). I understand bailouts because if these businesses fail then so do the many people that depend on them, and the implosion can get really messy, but it is really wrong that they get forgiven, just like the government does when they mess up, but when someone has to pay - it's us. There is a lot wrong about our world. I'm not a communist simply because, well, communism doesn't have borders...(at least the goal is it doesn't, from what I remember - correct me if I'm wrong). I'd be fine with a Nationalist-socialist system, not specifically referring to "Nazis", but you know me...not far off. Taking care of what we need to keep going.
I also don't believe in letting the neighbor live in squalor, that is, I simply believe that we should put ourselves, our nation/state, first, like we should breath to work- Not work to breath. If we can, we should try to incorporate the many different peoples of earth into one "state", respective to some common, unified goal of peace/prosperity, but separate states, and an ability to say "no" to the world government, not bound to dumb conventions like we have to settle refugees, we have to disrupt our peace. One people should not be pitted in competition with another, or literally destroyed, via mass immigration, and businesses hop skip jumping around to wherever is "cheapest" for them. Americans should have never had to compete with Pakistanis, directly- Americans should have been cooperating, and if there is competition, it should be focused more, with-"against" outside, not American companies like Apple making Americans compete with Chinese and what they will work for... Not these companies getting big in these ripe ecosystems, then plucking what they need and moving their producing tree elsewhere where water is cheaper, but dirtier..
Capitalism is disgusting, and this is why.
I don't really have a base to disagree with you, here, though. If Apple was publicly owned, I doubt it would have moved its production to China. I don't find communism "practical", though. Fascism, or rather "National Socialism" (the terms just match what I think is needed, fascism is an aspect of even our system, and any system really, even those of communism that have been employed- There is always a group of people controlling things, and they have the power of life and death over others), yes - more so, but not without some jagged edges that need to be nested in something more "rounded"/soft, for sake of everything.
I'm ignorant, though.
All this has also got me thinking about the right to bear arms, again. Not that I think it's actually that bad, yet. It has revealed the true and utter stupidity of believing that you should let another take away your guns, even so-called "assault rifles". That we should trust the "state". We aren't equipped to protect everyone, if the shit ever hits the fan. Our government isn't. I won't have my house raided for food, in some hypothetical situation. And I'll join a local army/militia, to preserve order, if that ever comes.
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